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Prayer Wheel Uses : Home / Personal
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Flight Prayer Wheels
"The time with you yesterday was full of meaning, warmth and closure. Oh, and new beginnings! Thanks for spending it with us.
Here are photos of the new homes for your-now-our two flight prayer wheels. The white one likes being near Ray Troll's print. The brown one already has a prayer in it that the family said together last night when it was placed on the table."
Maren
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Housewarming
"A friend worked with artist Chris Moench in designing a prayer wheel that she presented to me as a housewarming gift when I moved into my new home last November. It has become a treasured item (a sacred symbol more than a possession) in my home with a prominent place on my coffee table. We used it for a house blessing shortly after I received it, and it still holds the written prayers and memories of that special time, along with other prayers, blessings, hopes and dreams that have since been added. Every time the wheel spins I feel a connection and sense of prayers being offered and received in a way that words do not describe. There is a sense of divine mystery – an act of reverence and relevance."
Donna Vande Kieft
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Garden Blessing
"We wanted to share how nicely the prayer wheel graces our garden. It was especially meaningful yesterday, during our garden blessing. Many people spun the wheel and today we even found personal petitions in the wheel."
Blessings,
Kizzie and Thom
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Family Prayer Wheel
Two bears and a horse symbolize this family's favorite animals. Mountains, rivers and wide-open sky shape the landscape on this prayer wheel created for a single mom and her children.
The mom writes:
"We use the wheel every day. It is in our house entranceway. Inside the wheel I have some words on a piece of paper that remind me to be present with my family and myself. It says: 'I love myself just the way I am. I'm warm, open, and giving. I share my love openly and affectionately.' I turn the wheel after I say each line."
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Our Personal Wheel: "The Crossing"
An ancient stone bridge spanning a treacherous mountain river was destroyed during a war in Ethiopia. Nonetheless, people continued to cross using a line pulled taut by many hands. "The Crossing" reminds my wife and me that we need to help each other in difficult times. The old adage still applies: "Where there's a will, there's a way."
My wife Jenny writes:
"We spin our wheel often. It is loaded with prayers from friends, family and ourselves. If my husband is traveling, I write a prayer. When loved ones are ill or hospitalized, I write a prayer. When I need courage in my own work – researching and writing an emotional memoir – I write a prayer for courage, honesty, and the ability to ask deep questions. When someone is dying, I write a prayer and light a candle. When Chris first made the wheel, it was a thing of power and beauty. Now, chock full of prayers, those qualities increase a hundredfold. Spinning the wheel lessens my burdens and reminds me there's a power greater than me at work."
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Meditation: "Metamorphosis"
A yoga teacher who seeks to be mindful at home and work writes:
"I have seen many of Chris's prayer wheels over the years. I bought two for my business. I always had a secret desire to have a personal wheel. It's funny – but you don't want to buy one for yourself. When I saw this it immediately caught my eye. It was so different, and it was so small. And I loved the name: "Metamorphosis." That is what I said I'm going through right now in my life – metamorphosis! The larvae breaking out of the cocoon... I go into my meditation room every single morning. I turn on my lamp. I spin the wheel. I say a prayer. And I end the day the same way: I spin the wheel. I say a prayer. And I turn off my lamp."
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Chris's Parents: "Life's a River Trip"
I made this prayer wheel as an ode of love and admiration to my parents. It celebrates the joyfully passionate lives they lead. Circling the wheel is a rolling river on which a rubber raft floats. My father – a river rat and geologist in the tradition of John Wesley Powell – pulls lustily on the oars. My mother – a poet, musician and nature lover – sits on the bow playing her recorder. Music from her instrument rises and floats around the wheel. The notes hearken back to those lazy-river days when her music sang down canyons on family raft trips. Beneath the river I carved geologic strata – like my father drew on his maps to describe the earth's story. Along the shore, three bears run pell-mell. They are struggling and failing to keep pace with the raft. This echoes the ways my two siblings and I still strive to follow where our parents lead.
